Where do your good teaching ideas come from? The 18th century coffee house unleashed the scientific revolution. People gathered there to talk and share their ideas. Tim Berners Lee left the Internet open for all to access, and it has become the world's coffee house. Our ideas can be shared. We can get seed ideas. Our hunches can be developed. People need spaces where they can think in innovative ways. -Steven Berlin Johnson Keynote Speaker NYSCATE Conference 2010. Watch this YouTube video, Where Good Ideas Come From ,to understand this message in simple language. How can we create a learning environment that helps good ideas grow in our students and ourselves?
What year are you preparing your students for?NYSCATE keynote speaker, Heidi Hayes Jacobs used Today's Meet , a web tool that creates an instant real-time chat room, to project to her audience our responses to this question. The audience of hundreds of educators thought schools are preparing kids for 1990. We have 21st century kids, 21st century demands and 19th century conditions. This "clash of civilizations" has left teachers asking: What do we cut? What do we keep? What do we create? How do we use the new tools to teach our students to be independent learners? How do we help our students own the learning? Heidi Hayes Jacobs suggests that there will be long-term changes in school structures in schedules, teacher configurations, and space. However, short-term upgrades can be made in classrooms now. Teachers can modernize their assessments even when they cannot alter the content. Teachers can design instruction that engages the 21st century learner, enhances and deepens the content, and reflects improved quality using the new tools for learning. Commit to one upgrade a semester and replace a dated practice. Her Curriculum21 web site provides access to digital tools and to a professional learning community. Her message: "If you want to be a life-long teacher, you must be a public learner."
Teach them to build a positive digital footprint, not just to avoid a negative one. Presented by Jamie Mancuso, Grand Island CSD
Teaching Tips Index - A comprehensive list of education concepts and guidelines explained in simple terms. Recommended by Tom Colabufo, OHS Asst. Principal
- Where do your good teaching ideas come from? The 18th century coffee house unleashed the scientific revolution. People gathered there to talk and share their ideas. Tim Berners Lee left the Internet open for all to access, and it has become the world's coffee house. Our ideas can be shared. We can get seed ideas. Our hunches can be developed. People need spaces where they can think in innovative ways. -Steven Berlin Johnson Keynote Speaker NYSCATE Conference 2010. Watch this YouTube video, Where Good Ideas Come From ,to understand this message in simple language. How can we create a learning environment that helps good ideas grow in our students and ourselves?